How to succeed using FAPAS proficiency testing
16 June 2008 - 1 day
Central Science Laboratory, York, UK. £495.00 (GBP) (Places limited - early registration is recommended)
Fully exploit your participation in FAPAS® Schemes - FAPAS®, FEPAS®, GeMMA and LEAP® Schemes.
- Why do you to take part in Proficiency Testing (PT), because you have to, your accreditation requires it?
- Or because you want to ensure your results are accurate?
- Plan your PT participation to compliment your internal Quality Controls
- Do you treat your PT sample as a routine sample? Or do you give it special attention
Understanding the statistics
PT statistics, a dark art or a useful tool
- Assigned value
How FAPAS® sets the assigned value and why we use these procedures. - Standard deviation for proficiency testing
What is it? Why it is the most crucial aspect of PT. Is what you consider fit-for-purpose the same criterion as that used in PT? - >z-Scores
What do they mean / how should you interpret them
Responding to the report
What to do if it goes wrong! - How do you know it has gone wrong? Consider your performance in context.
Improving quality through Proficiency Testing
- PT costs time and money, are you getting the most out of your reports?
- What do you do with your z-scores? Do you look at trends over time?
- How are your z-scores distributed?
- Do you review the analytical methodology in the reports?
- Can you use z-scores to assess staff competence??
- Updating accreditation validation data with on-going PT data.
Fee - £495.00 (GBP) (Places limited early registration recommended).
The training course will commence at 9:30 on Monday, 16 June 2008 and it is expected that the finish time will be around 16:00.
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